China's fashion creations grace Milan Fashion Week stage

Chinese fashion emerging onto the world stage is attracting the attention of international visitors at the ongoing fall-winter 2015-2016 women's fashion week in Italy's Milan.

The exhibition "A touch of China fashion," taking place at the Castello Sforzesco (Sforza Castle) in the heart of the Italian fashion capital, features 16 Chinese stylists teamed up by ELLE China magazine.

The launch party on Saturday was attended by a number of international guests.

Besides supermodels such as Emma Pei (Pei Bei) and Yin Wang (Wang Zhuxiaoyin) and fashion icons including actress Ady An and it girl Sayo Akasaka there were professionals eager to have a glance at China's creations.

"I find these models to be cutting-edge, but at the same time they suggest very slightly the Chinese tradition," an Italian-German advertising producer, Nina Angeleri, told Xinhua while watching the exhibition.

Victor Zhu, Alex Wang, Nicole Lin, Judy Hua and Li Wei were among the stylists on stage.

Asked by ELLE China to design a dress for a contemporary woman who is both feminine but also full of energy, they interpreted the exhibition's guiding concept of the art of paper cutting with a variety of patterns.

"Some of the used materials, such as silk, as well as the classic cuts of suits remind me of China's culture, but at the same time I can see a clear touch of modernity in these creations," Angeleri noted.

Emma Xu, who works for Italian fashion house Ermanno Scervino and came from China to attend the Milan Fashion Week which ends on Monday, said she found it "very familiar" but not surprising to see so many Chinese designers on stage in Milan.

"Chinese stylists are now emerging internationally. Their destination is the global market," she told Xinhua commenting on the "A touch of China fashion" exhibition.

In fact ELLE China, the first high-end international women's magazine to enter the Chinese market in 1988, over the years has been steadfast in its support for Chinese designers.

"There is a new generation of promising Chinese stylists. Looking at their creations, you can see they have studied at the best fashion schools in the world," Valentina De Giorgi, fashion strategy consultant at the Leonor Cypriano Showroom in Milan, told Xinhua.

"I particularly like the approach to the feminine body of Chinese fashion designers. I find they are very able to play with forms and mix up materials to exalt genuine femininity," she highlighted.

"China has detached itself from the image of being a country typically of manufacture and is showing to the world its desire to emerge onto the fashion stage," De Giorgi stressed.